{"id":66,"date":"2011-07-13T17:25:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T17:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jairoalfonso.net\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2023-07-30T19:07:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T19:07:23","slug":"bio-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jairoalfonso.net\/?page_id=66","title":{"rendered":"BIO"},"content":{"rendered":"

JAIRO ALFONSO <\/strong>( Havana, 1974)<\/p>\n

Lives and works in New York.<\/p>\n

Education<\/b><\/p>\n

1998. Higher Institute of Art , Cubanacan, Havana.<\/p>\n

1993. National School of Art , Cubanacan, Havana.<\/p>\n

1989. Escuela Vocacional de Arte, G\u00fcira de Melena, Havana.<\/p>\n

Fellowships:<\/strong><\/p>\n

2019. The Fountainhead Artist Residency.<\/p>\n

2017. Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.<\/p>\n

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2015. Artist in Residence at Marble House Project. Vermont.<\/p>\n

2014. Artist in Residence at Guttenberg Arts. Fall Season, STAR Program. Bull Ferry Studios, NJ.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

2008. Workshop: Muyehlekete.O pensador-The Thinker. Maputo, Mozambique.<\/p>\n

2007. Residencia Batiscafo, Havana.<\/p>\n

Solo Exhibitions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

2023.<\/p>\n

Jairo Alfonso: Objectscapes<\/em>. Visual Arts Center of New Jersey. New Jersey. USA<\/p>\n

2021.<\/p>\n

Jairo Alfonso: The Screenshots Series<\/em>. Shin Gallery. New York. USA.<\/p>\n

597<\/em>. Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art (phiCA). Phoenix, Arizona. USA.<\/p>\n

2020.<\/p>\n

The Screenshots Series<\/em>. Coates and Scarry. London ,UK.<\/p>\n

2018.<\/p>\n

1350<\/em>.  Galer\u00eda de Arte Artizar. Tenerife, Spain.<\/p>\n

2015.<\/p>\n

172<\/em>. Artflow Galer\u00eda. San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica.<\/p>\n

2014.<\/p>\n

568<\/em>. Guttenberg Arts. New Jersey, USA.<\/p>\n

2013.<\/p>\n

Inventario<\/em>. Linie 31.<\/em>  Zeichnung – Drawing – Dessin – Disegno. Galerie Havana, Zurich.<\/p>\n

2009.<\/p>\n

Retorno<\/em>. Salle Z\u00e9ro. Alianza Francesa de Cuba. Havana.<\/p>\n

2007.<\/p>\n

Dolly In.<\/em> Galer\u00eda Servando, Havana.<\/p>\n

2006.<\/p>\n

Dolly Back<\/em>. Galer\u00eda 23 y 12. Havana.<\/p>\n

2005.<\/p>\n

Werke auf Papier und Leinwand<\/em>. Havana Galerie, Z\u00fcrich, Suiza.<\/p>\n

Caf\u00e9. XIV Feria Internacional del Libro. Fortaleza San Carlos de La Caba\u00f1a. Havana.<\/p>\n

2004.<\/p>\n

Instruments to relief the asfalt<\/em>. Havana Gallery, New Zealand.<\/p>\n

2002- 2003.<\/p>\n

La ilusi\u00f3n de los fragmentos<\/em>. Centro Provincial de Artes Pl\u00e1stica y Dise\u00f1o, Havana.<\/p>\n

2001.<\/p>\n

Instrumentos para aliviar el asfalto<\/em>. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (CDAV), Havana.<\/p>\n

2000.<\/p>\n

Instrumentaciones<\/em>. Centro de Arte Wifredo Lam, Havana.<\/p>\n

1999.<\/p>\n

Instrumento para una nueva comuni\u00f3n<\/em> (Performance). Jardines de la UNEAC, sponsored by Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Havana.<\/p>\n

Instrumento a la memoria<\/em>. Galer\u00eda Luis de Soto. Facultad Artes y Letras, Universidad de La Habana. Havana.<\/p>\n

1996.<\/p>\n

El retorno<\/em>. Galer\u00eda Arte 7 and Galer\u00eda Juan David. Cine Yara, Havana.<\/p>\n

1993.<\/p>\n

Armon\u00eda cordial<\/em>. Galer\u00eda del Instituto Superior de Arte, Cubanac\u00e1n, Havana.<\/p>\n

1992.<\/p>\n

Homenaje a mi abuelo<\/em>. Casa de la Cultura Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Heredia, Havana.<\/p>\n

Selected Group Exhibitions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

2022.<\/p>\n

Im Laufe der Jahrhunderte<\/em>. Havana Galerie and Sammlung. Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

The Annual Winter Group Show<\/em>. Galleri Christoffer Egelund. Copenhagen, Denmark.<\/p>\n

2021.<\/p>\n

TOP 10<\/em>. Artflow Galer\u00eda. San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica<\/p>\n

2020.<\/p>\n

Shifting Streams. Twelve artists by the Hudson River<\/em>. Longwood Art Gallery. Hostos Center for the Art and Culture, New York.<\/p>\n

2019<\/p>\n

Useless: Machines for Dreaming, Thinking and Seeing.<\/em> The Bronx Museum of the Arts. New York.<\/p>\n

2018<\/p>\n

Kindred Spirits. Ten artists by the Hudson<\/em>. Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, USA.<\/p>\n

Summertime’ 18 ( The annual group show 14th Edition).<\/em> Galleri Christoffer Egelund. Copenhagen. Denmark.<\/p>\n

All that you have is your soul<\/em>. Faction Art Projects. New York, USA.<\/p>\n

2017<\/p>\n

Origin and Circumstances<\/em>. The First Presbyterian Church, New York, USA.<\/p>\n

Trazos. Dibujos, Pintura, Video<\/em>. Allegro Gallery, Panama City, Panama.<\/p>\n

2016<\/p>\n

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Autopia: Road Trips from the Cold War to the Present<\/em>. Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami. USA.<\/p>\n

5th Bronx Latin American Art Biennial<\/em> .Bronx Art Space .New York, USA.<\/p>\n

Future Island: Contemporary Art from Cuba<\/em>, The Harts Gallery Connecticut, USA.<\/p>\n

An Island Apart: Cuban Artists in Exile<\/em>. Frank Museum of Art, Miller Gallery and Fisher Gallery, Otterbein University, Ohio, USA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

2015<\/p>\n

A sense of Place. Selections from the Jorge M. P\u00e9rez Collection<\/em>. Mana Wynwood Convention Center, Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n

Resilience. The Other Cuba<\/em>. Northrop King Building, 1500 Jackson St. NE, Minneapolis, Gallery Suite #332, USA.<\/p>\n

Aires de Cuba<\/em>. Galer\u00eda Estudio Artizar. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.<\/p>\n

2014<\/p>\n

Made Here<\/em>. Guttenberg Arts \/ Bull Ferry Studios. New Jersey, USA.<\/p>\n

FLOW. Economies of the Look and Creativity in Contemporary Art from the Caribbean<\/em>. IDB Cultural Center.Washington DC, USA.<\/p>\n

Cuban America: An Empire State of Mind<\/em>. Lehmann College Art Gallery. New York, USA.<\/p>\n

Habitar, Construir, Pensar: Perspectivas po\u00e9ticas y discursivas en el v\u00eddeo art contempor\u00e1neo cubano (1990-2010)<\/em>. Espacio de Creaci\u00f3n Contempor\u00e1nea (ECCO), C\u00e1diz, Spain.<\/p>\n

2013.<\/p>\n

Occupying, Building, Thinking. Poetic and discursive perspectives on Contemporary Cuban Video Art.<\/em> Contemporary Art Museum. Institute for Research in Art. University of South Florida, USA.<\/p>\n

Open Studio<\/em>. Estudio Beneficencia. Madrid. Spain.<\/p>\n

Politics: I don’t like it, but it likes me<\/em>. Laznia Center for Contemporary Art. Gdanks, Poland.<\/p>\n

Empapelados<\/em>. Galer\u00eda Estudio Artizar. Tenerife, Spain.<\/p>\n

2012.<\/p>\n

Habitar, construir, pensar. Perspectivas po\u00e9ticas y discursivas en el videoarte contempor\u00e1neo cubano.<\/em> Centro Cultural Espa\u00f1ol de Cooperaci\u00f3n Iberoamericana. Miami, USA.<\/p>\n

Open Studio Madrid<\/em>. Estudio Beneficencia, Madrid, Spain.<\/p>\n

Universal <\/em>video program. Sal\u00f3n Arteam\u00e9ricas. Feria Arteam\u00e9ricas. Miami, USA.<\/p>\n

Suced\u00e1neos de Fe. Convento de San Francisco de As\u00eds. Havana. Cuba.<\/p>\n

2011.<\/p>\n

Batiscafo\/ Proyecto Circo<\/em>. 8 Bienal do Mercosul. Ensaios de Geopo\u00e9tica. Porto Alegre, Brasil.<\/p>\n

The pleasure of getting lost<\/em>. Contemporary Cuban Art. Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada.<\/p>\n

Raz Habana: A luz continental<\/em>. Galerie Katapult, Basel, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

All\u00ed<\/em>. Arte Iberoamericano Contempor\u00e1neo. Colateral a ARCO 2011 .The Cool Pack, Madrid, Spain.<\/p>\n

2010.<\/p>\n

Primavera Cubana<\/em>. Galer\u00eda de Arte Contempor\u00e1nea Nuno Sacramento and Galer\u00eda de Arte y Centro de Mutualismo, Coimbra, Portugal.<\/p>\n

Del P\u00ed al P\u00e1<\/em>. Galer\u00eda Villla Manuela, La Habana.<\/p>\n

La atm\u00f3sfera (Sesi\u00f3n coreogr\u00e1fica).<\/em>V Festival de videodanza DVDanza Habana Movimiento y Ciudad, Las Carolinas, Havana.<\/p>\n

Feria Art Madrid<\/em>. Pabell\u00f3n de Cristal. Casa de Campo. Madrid. Spain.<\/p>\n

2009.<\/p>\n

Visual Art<\/em>. VIII Muestra audiovisual internacional El mes m\u00e1s corto. Palacio de la Isla. C\u00e1ceres. Spain.<\/p>\n

DUBAI 2015<\/em>. X Bienal de la Habana. Casa Sim\u00f3n Bolivar. Havana.<\/p>\n

2008.<\/p>\n

Tanda Corrida<\/em>. V Sal\u00f3n de Arte Cubano Contempor\u00e1neo. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales. (CDAV), La Habana.<\/p>\n

Memories & Parachutes<\/em>. Contemporary art from Cuba. Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.<\/p>\n

2007.<\/p>\n

A trav\u00e9s del espejo: Arte Cubano Hoy<\/em>. Allegro Galer\u00eda, Ciudad Panam\u00e1, Panam\u00e1.<\/p>\n

Vostok<\/em>. Centro Provincial de Artes Pl\u00e1sticas y Dise\u00f1o, y Taller de Reparaciones Vostok, La Habana.<\/p>\n

Killing Time. An exhibition of Cuban artists from the 1980s to the present.<\/em> Exit Art, New York, USA.<\/p>\n

Travelling. Realidad & Ficci\u00f3n<\/em>. Proyecto Circo, Cine Actualidades, Havana.<\/p>\n

Caminos<\/em>. Centro Cultural Pedro Tolosa. Villa del Prado. Madrid, Spain.<\/p>\n

Nexos<\/em>. Galer\u00eda Servando, Havana.<\/p>\n

2006.<\/p>\n

Feria de arte contempor\u00e1neo<\/em>. Arte Lisboa 2006. Lisboa, Portugal.<\/p>\n

Cuban Heat. A show of sensual Art from Cuba<\/em>. Cuban Artspace, Centre for Cuban Studies. New York, USA.<\/p>\n

Arte Cubano<\/em>. Galer\u00eda Artane, Estambul. Turqu\u00eda.<\/p>\n

2005.<\/p>\n

Foire d\u00b4Art Contemporain Montreux Art Gallery<\/em>. Centre des Congr\u00e8s et d\u00b4Expositions. Motreux. Suiza.<\/p>\n

Gesichter und Sichtweisen.<\/em> Forum des ThyseenKrupp Trade Centers, D\u0171sseldorf, Germany.<\/p>\n

Cuba, the next generation<\/em>. Cuban Artspace. Center for Cuban Studies. New York. USA.<\/p>\n

2004.<\/p>\n

Cuba from the inside. Looking out<\/em>. Elaine Jacob Gallery. Dwayne State University, Detroit, USA.<\/p>\n

Cuban Arts<\/em>. Wiseenschaftpark Gelsenkirchen, Genselkirchen, Germany.<\/p>\n

Obligada Contingencia<\/em>. Asamblea de Extremadura, Merida, Spain.<\/p>\n

Cuba Untitled<\/em>. Heidi Cho Gallery. Nueva York, USA.<\/p>\n

Una china en el zapato<\/em>. Sala de Exposiciones Santa In\u00e9s. Sevilla, Spain.<\/p>\n

Havana Inside- Out<\/em>. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. New Orleans. USA.<\/p>\n

La magia de la trivialidad<\/em>. Havana Galerie. Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

2003.<\/p>\n

Arte Cubano<\/em>. Havana Gallery. New Zealand. Australia.<\/p>\n

Bajo la sombra<\/em>. Octava Bienal de La Habana. Fundaci\u00f3n Havana Club. La Habana.<\/p>\n

Resonancia<\/em>. Octava Bienal de La Habana. Casa de Asia. La Habana.<\/p>\n

Trin\u00b4aria<\/em>. Octava Bienal de La Habana. Galer\u00eda Servando Cabrera. La Habana.<\/p>\n

Proyecto Circo. Octava Bienal de La Habana. Carpa del Circo Nacional, La Habana.<\/p>\n

Altermedia<\/em>. VI Coloquio Nacional de Artes Pl\u00e1sticas, Sal\u00f3n ACAA, Matanzas.<\/p>\n

2002.<\/p>\n

Otros Puentes<\/em> (algunos proyectos realizados por la Fundaci\u00f3n Ludwig de Cuba), Galer\u00eda Provincial de Arte Pedro Esquerr\u00e9, Matanzas.<\/p>\n

Muestra de videoarte<\/em>. Fundaci\u00f3n Ludwig de Cuba. La Habana. Muestra audiovisual “El almac\u00e9n de la imagen”. Camaguey.<\/p>\n

2001.<\/p>\n

Alegor\u00edas<\/em>. Havana Galerie, Z\u00fcrich, Suiza. Autorretratos de Fin de Siglo.<\/p>\n

Encuentro de grabado 2001. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana.<\/p>\n

Sal\u00f3n de la Ciudad 2001. Centro Provincial de Artes Pl\u00e1sticas y Dise\u00f1o, Havana.<\/p>\n

Extensiones<\/em>. Ateneo Cervantes. Centro Provincial de Artes Pl\u00e1sticas y Dise\u00f1o, Havana.<\/p>\n

2000.<\/p>\n

Fin de Siglo. La Conjunci\u00f3n de la Nada<\/em>. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana.<\/p>\n

Obras recientes (cuatro artistas cubanos).<\/em> Galer\u00eda de la Consejal\u00eda de Cultura, Los Llanos de Aridane, La Palma, Islas Canarias, Spain.<\/p>\n

Una mano… y las dos?<\/em> Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana.<\/p>\n

Interfases<\/em>. VII Bienal de La Habana. Centro Cultural Leonor P\u00e9rez, Havana.<\/p>\n

1999.<\/p>\n

Premio La Joven Estampa<\/em>. Galer\u00eda Haydee Santamar\u00eda, Casa de las Am\u00e9ricas, Havana.<\/p>\n

1998.<\/p>\n

Exposici\u00f3n de dibujo<\/em>. Havana Galerie, Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Esto no tiene nombre<\/em>. II Sal\u00f3n Arte Cubano Contempor\u00e1neo. Galer\u00eda ISA, Havana.<\/p>\n

Sin p\u00faas<\/em>. Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana.<\/p>\n

Construyendo puentes culturales\/Building cultural bridges<\/em>. Universidad de Cornell, Universidad William Paterson, Universidad Atl\u00e1ntica de la Florida, USA.<\/p>\n

1997.<\/p>\n

Antes de la lluvia<\/em>. VI Bienal de la Habana, ISA, Cubanac\u00e1n, Havana.<\/p>\n

Algoritmos III<\/em>. Galer\u00eda L, Vedado, Havana.<\/p>\n

1996.<\/p>\n

Espuelas Afiladas<\/em>. Feria D y Malec\u00f3n. Havana.<\/p>\n

Arte Cubano Actual<\/em>. Itinerante por Jornada de Cultura Cubana en China y Rusia.<\/p>\n

Algoritmos II<\/em>. Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana.<\/p>\n

1995.<\/p>\n

Las Puertas<\/em>. Palacio de las Convenciones, Havana.<\/p>\n

1er Sal\u00f3n de Arte Cubano Contempor\u00e1neo<\/em>. Museo Nacional, Palacio de Bellas Artes Centro de Desarrollo de Artes Visuales (CDAV), Havana.<\/p>\n

1994.<\/p>\n

No valen guayabas verdes<\/em>. V Bienal de La Habana, Havana.<\/p>\n

Acad\u00e9mica 94<\/em>. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana.<\/p>\n

Collections: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Permanent Collection Province de Hainaut. B\u00e9lgica.<\/p>\n

Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, E.U.A.<\/p>\n

Havana Galerie, Z\u00fcrich, Suiza.<\/p>\n

Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL.<\/p>\n

Private collections in Canada, EEUU, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Mozambique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JAIRO ALFONSO ( Havana, 1974) Lives and works in New York. Education 1998. Higher Institute of Art , Cubanacan, Havana. 1993. National School of Art , Cubanacan, Havana. 1989. Escuela Vocacional de Arte, G\u00fcira de Melena, Havana. Fellowships: 2019. The Fountainhead Artist Residency. 2017. Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. 2015. Artist in Residence at Marble House Project. Vermont. 2014. Artist in Residence at…<\/p>\n

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